Playing the long game

If I was planning to disband my team this week and I only cared about what they could deliver in a couple of days then I’d be focused on making sure that everyone was doing that piece of work that they were most skilled at.

Self-sufficient teams

A number of years ago, a client of mine had a new feature request come to one part of the company. It was a significant change that would touch quite a few teams to get done and when they asked those teams how long it would take, the answer was somewhere between 10 and 12 weeks.